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G20

from sheer dissatisfaction with satisfaction. It would not
be satisfaction if we were dissatisfied with it. Consequently, genuine
inquiry, which of its essential nature sets out from doubt, can only
be incited by that external cognitive force which we call experience.
That is to say it must arise from an experience contrary to
a previous belief, or at least, contrary to what we should have
believed if we had thought about the matter at all, before the
experience. In other words, the inquiry takes its rise from some
surprising experience. Now the first act of thought that